L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 987
pay, other free concessions granted and the place of duty, etc., under which the clerical and subordinate staff used to be employed in the Viceregal Estates Division at Simla or Delhi prior to the
14th July 1946 ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : A statement is laid on the table. ( See p. 988).
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*** Application of Hours of Employment** Regulations to Jodhpur Railway
- Seth Sukhdev : Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to state :
(a) whether the Hours of Employment Regulations apply to the Jodhpur Railway portion running through die British India,
(b) if the reply to (a) above be in the affirmative, why no reference to it is made in the Conciliation Officer and Supervisor of Railway Labour’s report for three years
1941-44, published in the issue of the Indian Labour Gazette for December 1945, and
(c) whether the Honourable Member will please lay on the table of the House a statement showing the following information for the British portion of the Jodhpur Railway, separately, for three years, 1941-44 —
(i) the number of staff employed,
(ii) the number of staff affected by the regulations,
(iii) the number of staff classed as continuous workers,
(iv) the number of staff classed as ‘essentially intermittent workers’,
(v) the number of staff excluded,
(vi) the percentage of staff enjoying calendar day’s rest,
(vii) the number of inspections held,
(viii) the number of cases in which the classification was challenged by the Labour Inspectorate,
(ix) the number of doubtful cases which were referred to the Labour Department of the Government of India for decision, and
***** Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1946, 6th March 1946, p. 1976.